Exercise vs. Physical Work: What is Better for Sleep?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Could housework or a hobby be better for your sleep than a workout at the gym? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Doctor Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:12.0 | Doctor Eric Berg. |
| 0:14.0 | So I have a question. |
| 0:15.0 | What is better for sleep? |
| 0:17.0 | Exercise or physical work? |
| 0:19.0 | Like yard work, cleaning, building something, fixing something, remodeling something, |
| 0:26.0 | or just your job where you're using your physical body. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm not talking about sitting on a desk, of course, but actual physical work. |
| 0:34.0 | What is better for sleep? |
| 0:35.0 | What do you think? |
| 0:36.0 | Personally, I think physical work is probably ten times better for your sleep |
| 0:41.0 | and reducing stress than actual exercise that you would do at the gym or even at home. |
| 0:48.0 | So let's first take a look at the similarities. |
| 0:50.0 | Both increased oxygen, increased muscle activity, can increase your endurance, can decrease stress. |
| 1:00.0 | But with exercise, it's very predictive, it's very structured, it's repetitive. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a really focused, intentional motion activity where you're normally working symmetrical muscles. |
| 1:12.0 | So you might start off with the left side and do the right side or both at the same time. |
| 1:17.0 | For physical work, it's not really predicted or structured. |
| 1:20.0 | It's very asymmetrical, which is in some ways actually very, very good. |
| 1:25.0 | Plus, your mental focus is a lot different. |
| 1:28.0 | You're not concentrated just on your body. |
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